Distributor for cotton



A. E. SEARLES DISTRIBUTOR FOR COTTON Mar. 20 1923.

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Man. 20, 11923; 1,449,351 A. E. SEARLES 7 DISTRIBUTOR FOR COTTON Filed Aug. 50, 1920 2 sheets-sheet 2 INV TOR.

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. raw it ARTHUR E. SEARLES, OF HOUSTON, TE S, ASSIGNOR TO FREDERICK PARKER.

DISTBEBUTOR FOR COTTON.

Application filed August 30, 1920. Serial No. 406,973.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that l, ARTHUR E. SEARLES, a citizen of the United States, residing at iiouston, in the county of Harris and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Distributors for Cotton, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in a distributor for cotton or other fibrous material, and has particular relation to a machine adapted to be used in the manufacture of mattresses.

@ne object of the invention is to provide a machine of the character described which has been specially constructed for the pur pose of distributing lint cotton or other similar fibrous material onto a table or platform, in a uniform mass, as a preliminary step in the formation or construction of a mattress.

Another object of the invention resides in the provision of a fibre distributing machine which will distribute the fibre on a receiving platform or table in such a manner that the center of the bat when deposited will contain somewhat more material than the ends, this for the reason that it is desirable in the construction of mattresses from fibrous material to form the center of the mattress somewhat more compact than the ends.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of the character described from which the cotton bat can be readily removed for insertion into the mattress cover.

A further feature resides in the provision of a device of the character described which is very simple of construction and operation and which may consequently be cheaply manufactured and easily kept in repair.

lVith the above and other objects incthe view the invention has particular relation to certain novel features of construction, opera-,

tion and arrangement of parts, an example of which is given in this specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine, showing the near wall partially broken away, and

Figure 2 is a front elevation thereof.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings wherein like numerals of reference designate similar parts in each of the figures, the numeral 1 refers to a receiving platform or table mounted upon which there is a boxlike chute 2, which is sustained upon the table by means of the corner braces or legs The lower sections of the respective walls of this chute are formed into shutters 1, which are hinged to the upper sections by means of the hinges 5 so that they may be readily opened. The chute 2 is fixed in position by being secured to a framework 6. Entering the top of the chute there is an inlet spout 7, whose free end 8 is turned downwardly into vertical position, and pivoted to said downwardly turned end there is an oscillating distributor 9. Lint cotton is discharged by air pressure through the spout 7 and passes through said distributor 9 and is by it deposited on the table 1 underneath. This distributor is oblong in form and its sides 10, 10, are curved outwardly being arcuate in cross section. A pulley 11 is rotatably mounted upon a stub shaft 12 carried by the side of the chute 2 and this pulley is driven by a suitable belt 13. A link it is provided, one end of which is pivoted to the pulley 11, eccentrically, and the other end of which is connected to one end of the distributor 9. It is obvious that as the pulley 11 rotates it will operate through the link 14 to oscillate the distributor into the extreme positions shown in dotted lines in Figure 1, and the lint cotton or other fibrous material delivered through said distributor will fall down upon the table 1, and will be distributed from end to end thereof in a soft, fluffy mass or bat. On account of the arcuate sides of the distributor, when it is in either extreme position, the fibre will be retarded somewhat in it, but when in direct vertical position, the fibre will be delivered through it without retardation, and there fore slightly more material will be delivered at the center of the bat than at the ends, so that when the bat is compressed and formed intoa mattress the center of the mattress will be somewhat firmer than the ends thereof. After a sufiicient quantity of material has been delivered onto the table 1, the shutters 4 are opened and the material is then compressed, by any of the well known processes, and inserted into the mattress cover.

/V hat I claim is 1. in a device of the character described, an inlet spout, an oscillating distributor arranged to receive cotton from said spout, and discharge the same in a wide bat and whose sides are arcuate, and means for 0s cillating said distributor.

2. In a device of the character described an inlet spout, an oscillating distributor formed with a wide discharge opening and arranged to receive cotton from said spout and deliver the same in a Wide bat in successive layers, the sides of said distributor being arcuate, and thereby operating to retard the delivery or said cotton when the distributor is in either extreme, position, and means for oscillating said distributor.

3. In a device for distributing cotton, an inlet spout whose discharge end is downwardly turned, an oscillating distributor depending from the downturned end of the spout and formed with a long transverse discharge opening and arranged to receive cotton from said spout and deliver the same in 15 a Wide bat, the sides of said distributor being arouate' thereby operating to retard the delivery of said cotton When the distributor'is in either extreme position, and means for oscillating the distributor.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ARTHUR E. SEABLES.

Witnesses:

E. V. HARDWAY, JAS. W, OLIVER. 

